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Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:48:44 GMT2015-03-03T18:48:44ZConnecting people for development : why public access ICTs matterhttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/51520
Title: Connecting people for development : why public access ICTs matter
Authors: Sey, Araba; Coward, Chris; Bar, François; Sciadas, George; Rothschild, Chris; Koepke, Lucas
Abstract: Libraries, telecenters, and cybercafés
play a critical role in extending the
benefits of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) to a
diverse range of people worldwide.
However, their ability to contribute to
development agendas has come into
question in recent times. The Global
Impact Study was designed to address
this debate by generating evidence
about the scale, character, and impacts
of public access ICTs in eight countries:
Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Chile,
Ghana, Lithuania, the Philippines, and
South Africa. This report summarizes
the study’s key findings, situating public
access in the context of national
development, discussing some disputed
issues, and providing recommendations
for policymakers, public access
practitioners and researchers. The
results show that a central impact of
public access is the promotion of digital
inclusion through technology access,
information access, and development of
ICT skills. Both users and non-users
report positive impacts in various social
and economic areas of their lives.Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/515202013-01-01T00:00:00ZImplicancias del uso de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación en municipios rurales : un estudio de caso en Ayacucho, Perúhttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45568
Title: Implicancias del uso de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación en municipios rurales : un estudio de caso en Ayacucho, Perú
Authors: Kanashiro, Laura LeónFri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/455682010-01-01T00:00:00ZPublic access to ICT and employment : case of the impact of public access to ICT skills on job prospects in Rwandahttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45564
Title: Public access to ICT and employment : case of the impact of public access to ICT skills on job prospects in Rwanda
Authors: Damascène, M. Jean; Theodomir, M.
Abstract: The modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is widely seen by countries as a major drive for their socio-economic development. This is demonstrated by huge investments put in ICT projects. Despite such investments, less is done to evaluate the impact of the access to ICT in specific sectors such as employment. This paper presents a study which intends to evaluate the impact of ICT skills acquired from public access ICT venues on job prospects in Rwanda. A mixed method approach is adopted to carry out the investigation. The study is in progress such that the paper does not present any findings, but the study is expected to contribute to the improvement of our understanding of the impact of public access to ICT and to have a potential public policy impact.Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/455642010-01-01T00:00:00ZInternet centers/usage by Burmese ethnic migrants in Mae Sod : traversing the borders of Internet divide and recasting ethnic identitieshttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45563
Title: Internet centers/usage by Burmese ethnic migrants in Mae Sod : traversing the borders of Internet divide and recasting ethnic identities
Authors: Dacanay, Nikos
Abstract: This paper, taken from an on-going research on the use of Internet centers by marginalized women in the Thai- Burma border, reflects upon the various means of appropriation of the technology. The Internet has ostensibly liberating effects on these women, but this paper proposes that there is more to the feeling of being free in the virtual world. There is currently a “project” of affirming, claiming, and molding traditional ethnic identities through the use of Internet. The paper imagines this as revolutionizing the discursive mode of resistance and rebellion by these marginalized women against the military regime in Burma. Using their agentic qualities, the women transform their social scripts as “marginalized” and “displaced” into “empowered” women who are informed, educated, and aware of their human rights. Set in the border town of Mae Sod in Tak province Thailand and against the backdrop of an omnipresent – but mute - population of illegal migrants from Burma, the discursive inferior-superior relationship between Thais and Burmese, and the complex networking of bodies and organizations providing humanitarian and development aid in the border, this paper looks at the symbiotic relationship between the use of the Internet and the re/construction of ethnic identities. The paper argues that the incomplete and ongoing self-making ethnic identity project shapes how Internet is used as much as how Internet is also shaping this identity project (i.e. construction of virtual identities, appropriation of modern identities, repairing ethnic identities, etc.)Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/455632010-01-01T00:00:00Z